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Israeli soldiers take positions along the border between the northern West Bank near Jenin and Israel as they search for two Palestinians who broke out of a maximum-security prison
PALESTINIAN prison escape hero Zakaria Zubeidi sent a message to Israel on Tuesday, explaining that its brutal occupation of his land left no option but resistance.
Born in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, Mr Zubeidi saw many of his family members shot dead by Israeli forces. He said that these experiences had pushed him to join the armed struggle for Palestinian liberation.
“What do you expect from a person whose father you starved by preventing him from practising his profession as a teacher, whose mother you killed in front of him – shot dead by a sniper – and killed his brother and his best friends, along with 370 sons and daughters of a refugee camp crowded into one square kilometre,” Mr Zubeidi said.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ANN CZERNIK looks back over the last two years of carnage that began with the unprecedented October 7 operation and considers the rhetoric from both sides in light of the massacre carried out by Israel that has united the world in horror
